they're o often in water that is naturally y more acidic than soe of the surroundingng water, ando ifif we can gure out h how they deal with ththis problem, we mit be able to apppply that to other abalone species that are also facing peril. [surf crashing] swezeyey: i met doug bush, w whs the general manager ofof the cultured abalone fararm, when he cacame up here to give a a semi. the whwhite abalonone breedingng prograram here has really bebeen ininformed by a lot of the stuff he's done with his commercial business in santa barbara on the kind of technique for raising the larvae, how you grow them out, how you raise a lot in a very smallll space. ththat's s l informatation that''s incrcrediy important t to abalone nservationon. bush: therere's a a really strog demand domticacall almlmost all of our product is sold in california or just on the west coast. we do everything in-house. we're a completely integrated farm. we have adult abalone, which we'e'll takake io the hatchery, and you get a tiny littttle fertilized abalonee emembryo. we g get them by the mimillions. 24 h hours latater,